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No. 374,653 Patented Dec. 13-, i887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OrFIcE.

RUSSELL BROOK, OF GLADSTONE, OHIO.

PLANTER AND DRILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,653, dated December 13, 1887.

Applicati' 11 filed February 24,1887. Serial No. 22 ,701. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUssELL BROOK, of Gladstone, in the county of Greene and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Planter and Drill, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a corn-planter and drill, and has for its objects to open a furrow, clear the soil of any weeds in advance of the shovel, provide means for dropping the seed at regular intervals, and cover the same when dropped.

The invention consists in the combination and construction of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointedout in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification. in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the machine, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal vertical section through line mo of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear view, partly in section, the axle being broken away.

Within the rectangular frame 1 of the machine, near the rear, an axle, 2, is journaled,

adapted to project a distance out from said.

frame upon each side. Upon the outer ends of the axle 2 splines 3 are secured, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The drive-wheels 4, adapted to revolve upon said axle, are each provided with an integral hub, 5, projecting outward from each side of the wheels, which hubs upon their inner sides are fitted with an annular collar, 6, a coil or spiral spring, 7, being made to intervene and bear upon the said inner end of the hub and the side of the frame. The outer ends of the hubs are provided with inclined notches or ratchet-teeth 8, (also illusrevolves to alternately engage rollers 12, jour-- naled at the rear end of horizontal levers 13,

the said levers being centrally pivoted in alignment with the inner faces of the disks 9 and 10 to a'transverse beam, 14, secured to the frame a distance in front of the axle 2.

plate, 29, having longitudinal slotted plates Upon the beam 15, carrying the seedboxes 16, extended transversely the frame in front of the aforesaid beam 14, a bar, 17, is held to slide in guides 18, attached to the longitudi-- nal side beams of said frame, the ends of which slide-bar are apertured and made to project through the seed-boxes in the usual manner. The said slide-bar 17 is actuated through the horizontal levers 13, the connection being effected by pins 18 upon the forward ends of said levers entering slots 19 in the rear end of a short plates 20, attached to the sliding bar transversely the same, as illustrated in'Fig. 1.

A vertical seed-guide, 21, is secured at the bottom of each box 16, carrying at its lower end an ordinary shovel, 22. To the rear of said guides shares 23 are held,upon either side, in adjustable suspension a slight distance above the surface of the ground,with theirinner faces inclined at the top toward each other. Thus as the shovel opens the ground and the seed drops therein the said seeds are covered by the pendent shares and theloose earth pressed smoothly down by the following drive-wheels.

- In alignment with the seed-guides and drivewheels divided runners 24 are hinged at one end to the front beams of the frame, having pivoted to their rear ends a curved apertured arm, 25, which arms, extending upward to a contactwith the longitudinal side beams ofsaid frame, are adjustably supported thereon by pins 26, adapted to pass through one of the apertures in said arms and into an aperture in the frame, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Centrally within the frecessed runners a colter-wheel, 27, is journaled, which not only clears a way through weeds in the track of the shovel, but also, by means of the adj ustable arm 25, regulates the depth of the furrow to be cut. Thus when the upper apertures in the arm 25 are made to register with the aperture in the frame the shovel-penetrates the ground but slightly,while the reverse is true when the lower apertures in said arm are employed in the adjustment of the runners.

A seat, 28, is supported over the center of the planter at the rear by a curved spring- 71 secured at the ends, which plates are adj ustably held upon the upper edge of the longitudinal frame beams by screws passing through the slots in said plates. By this means the seat may be adjusted to preserve a proper balance.

To the right of the seat forward the supporting spring-plate 29 a straight lever, 30, is pivoted near the lower end of the longitudinal side beams of the frame, to which lever,above its pivot, an angle-1ever,3l,is pivoted,provided with bifurcated ends 32, adapted to embrace the hub 5 of the right-hand wheel between the inner face of said wheel and the annular collar 6 of the hub. The hub of the left-hand wheel is similarly grasped by the bifurcated ends 33 of a second angle-lever, 34,whieh has pivotal connection with the lower end of the straight lever 30, as shown in Fig. 3. A rack, 35, is vertically supported upon the frame, into which the straight lever may be locked.

In, operation, when going to the field, the lever 30 is carried over to the left,which, drawing the angle-levers toward the center, causes their bifurcated ends to come in contact with collars upon the hub, which action carries the hubs and wheels inward out ofengagement with the splines upon the axle, permitting the wheels to revolve upon the axle without turning the same. The position is retained by the interlocking of the straight lever with its rack.

\Vhen the machine has been brought in line for planting, the lever 30 is released and the hubs of the wheels return to their normal position in positive engagement with the axle. Now as the wheels revolve, the axle revolves with them, whereby the camfaced disks are rotated, and through them the seed'dropping mechanism, as described.

The planter may be used as a drill by increasing the number of cam-faced projections upon the disks, so as to drop the seed more rapidly.

To adapt the machine for use as a checkrower, one or more arms, 36, are attached to the outer face of the drive-wheels, as illustrated in Fig. 3, adapted to project beyond the periphery of said wheels, and as a means ver 37 a block, 39, is pivotally attached,

adapted, when not in use, to trail upon the ground. By bringing the block to a vertical position resting upon the ground it may be used as a fulcrum for said lever,and the wheels be thereby lifted from the ground and carried either to the right or left, as found desirable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the axle 2, having splines 3 integral with its ends, and disks 9 and 10, having cam-faced projections 11 secured to said axle, the drive-wheels 4, having integral hubs 5,provided with angular recesses 8 at one end and an annularcollar, 6, at the other, of the horizontal levers 13, having rollers 12 at one end, the seed-slide 17, having attached plates 20, adapted to engage said horizontal levers and be reciprocated thereby, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The axle 2, having splines 3 at its ends, and the wheels 4-, provided with the angular recesses S on the outer ends of their hubs, and with the collars 6 on the inner ends of the hubs, in combination with the disks 9 10, seeured to the axle and provided with cam projections, the seedslide 17, the pivoted levers 13, having one end engaging the said disks and the other connected to the seed slide, and levers for sliding the wheels on the axle out of engagement with the splines in the ends of the said axle, substantially as herein shown and described.

RUSSELL BROOK.

Witnesses:

O. H. BROOK, AMos L. EYLER. 

